Organized Effort Drives Mt Vernon City Building
A campaign by the Citizens' Association urges 200 members for a stronger city booster program. It outlines objectives including e news bureau, hosting visitors, promoting factories, and publishing industrial stats. A July 2 banquet at Knights of Columbus hall will announce slogan results and boost membership.
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Chamber of Commerce
Board of ‘Trade
Mt. Vernon
Citizens’ Association
e-News
High Street
Knights of Columbus
Messrs
Waight
Mulhane
Ringwalt
Perrine
Tuat Mt. Vernon
Knox county court opens with several chancery cases
A weeklong session of common pleas court in Knox county began Monday at 9 o clock with Judge Mansfield presiding. Dockets include Davidson versus Higbine and Hastingson versus Gima. Michael T. Lee applies for a pardon from the Ohio penitentiary with Prosecutor Cromley opposing. Other items note first and final probate accounts, appointments of executors and guardians, a marriage license, and several deeds filed in Brown Union and Clinton townships.
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Common Pleas Court
Knox County
Mansfield
Richland County
Davidson
Lee
Cromley
Michael T. Lee
Ohio
Columbus
In Moncow and Debrorture Property Transfers
A garbled listing shows names such as Gourze Meredith George Me Cracken William Bullock Theodore Me Millen and figures like 99,900 and 91,800, attached to locations Moncow and Debrorture. The text reads as a damaged property or financial record with multiple names and monetary figures pending clarification.
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Aere
Moncow
Gourze Meredith
George
Cracken
Nere
Debrorture
William Bullock
Theodore
Millen
Bucken Entultion
Mr. Vernon
Buckeye State Building and Loan Company Offer
Rare deposit box rental opportunity offered by Buckeye State Building and Loan Company in Columbus. Building boasts fireproof construction using stone brick and metal fittings. Five percent interest on timely deposits. location Rankin Building at 22 Went Gy street.
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Buckeye Sate Building and Loan Company
Columbus
Injury to Child From Fall on Colum bus Road
The young daughter of Mr and Mrs Smith Morey of South Vernon suffered a broken collar bone in an evening accident on the Columbus road. She was playing about the home when she fell hard against a door and was badly injured. Dr Deeley attended and confirmed a fracture to the right collar bone.
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Smith Morey
Columbus Road
South Vernon
EB. Deeley
Mt Vernon W T U conducts successful oratorical contest
In Mt Vernon on June 21 the double W T U contest concluded with six contestants in oratory, four from nearby Indiana and two from Mt Vernon. Miss Lottie Newton of Howard won the gold medal and Mina Carene Mahaffey of Mt Vernon took the silver in music with judges Rev Cochran Prof Lybarger and Ralph Lockman and Mia Carter Howard Hastings and Fred Huntaberger serving as panelists.
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Mina‘Carene Mahaffey
Mt. Vernon
Mia. Carter
Danville
Howard Hastings
Democracy
Fred Huntaberger
Resolution from Knox county Grange thanks McClelland for service
The Knox county Grange adopted a resolution at a Saturday meeting recognizing R G McClelland for his exemplary work. The group states the people could not have chosen a better delegate and extends a vote of thanks to Brother McClelland for his efforts.
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Knox County
R. G. McClelland
McClelland
Death notices for Helen Kaylor Nancy Monniger Wesley Chapel funeral
The sixteen year old Helen Kaylor died at home near Danville after a brief illness. Funeral at the house Tuesday at 10 o'clock, Rev. Oxborn officiating with interment in Harding cemetery. Nancy Monniger died at Greersville after three weeks illness at age 74. Funeral Thursday at Wesley Chapel cemetery with Wesley Chapel service.
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Helen Kaylor
William Kaylor
Danville
Oxborn
Harding Cemetery
Nancy Monniger
Greersville
Dow
Wesley Chapel
Mav
Hastings
Whimsical wills and postmortem curiosities featured
A collection of odd probate clauses by English and European notables shows ghoulish care for the dead. Examples include a Plymouth magnate requesting toe removal to prove death, Lord Lytton’s postmortem checks, a Hertfordshire farmer’s “thirty years nap” plan, and Sieur Hoby’s heart preserved for a mausoleum. The piece comments on eccentric wills across centuries.
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Plymouth
England
Lord Lytton
Hertfordshire
Sieur Hoby
M. Baudoin
la Mayenne
Robert
Tewkenbury
John Balliol
Barnard Castle
John Reed
Walnut Street Theater
Philadelphia
Yorick
New York Sun
Labor leaders guilty of contempt by DC Supreme Court
Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell were found guilty of contempt of court by the District of Columbia Supreme Court in the Bucks Store and Range boycott case. Gompers received one year, Morrison nine months, and Mitchell six months. They plan further appeal to the U S Supreme Court which previously reversed their conviction.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Bucks
Lompera
Morrison
Mitchell
Supreme Court of the United States
Knights of St John Conclave Opens in Toronto
The international convention of the Knights of St. John opened in Toronto on June 24 drawing an estimated 20,000 delegates and visitors from Canada and the United States. The morning included a visit to St. Michael's Cathedral for high mass and the formal opening at Canadian Foresters' Hall with remarks from Archbishop O'Conor Sir James Whitney and Mayor Geary. The event continues into Thursday with business sessions planned. Mr and Mrs Robert Tavenner return from a wedding trip and visit relatives in Mt Vernon before heading home to Springfield Ohio.
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Toronto
The
Knights of St. John
Canada
United States
St. Michael's Cathedral
James Whitney
Geary
Robert Tavenner
Mt. Vernon
Emai
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